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William J. Burns

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William J. Burns is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a thirty-three-year diplomatic career. He holds the highest rank in the Foreign Service, career ambassador, and is only the second serving career diplomat in history to become deputy secretary of state. Prior to his tenure as deputy secretary, Ambassador Burns served from 2008 to 2011 as under secretary for political affairs. He was ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs from 2001 to 2005, and ambassador to Jordan from 1998 to 2001. Ambassador Burns earned a bachelor’s in history from La ...more

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	The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal 4.28 avg rating — 1,861 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Shaping the principles of policy debate, I learned, is often the first step toward winning it.”
― William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

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“Russia is providing graphic evidence that declining powers can be at least as disruptive as rising ones, increasingly convinced that the pathway to revival of its great power status runs through the erosion of an American-led order.”
― William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

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“in a Time of Peril. New York: Viking, 2011. Albright, Madeleine. Madam Secretary: A Memoir. New York: Miramax”
― William J. Burns, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

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